Improvement in harvesters



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IGNOR To Letters Patent No. 85,349, dated December 29, 188.

IMPROVEMENT IN HARVESTERS.

The Schedule referred :ln these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all 'whom it 'may conce/rn:

I, GEORGE W. N. YOST, of Corry, Erie county, Pennsylvania, have inventeda new and useful Climax-Body Leveran improvement 011 my climax-body4-f0rGrass and Grain-Cutting Machines.

The following description, illustrated by the accompanying drawings,will enable others to make the invention, description vand drawingshaving corresponding specifying-characters.

Figure 1 of the drawings isa combined view of my climax-body andclimax-body lever attached.

Figures 2, 3, and 11 are views ofdetached parts of the climax-body-leverapparatus.

' A and A are cases forming my'climax-body.

C is a lid ofthe opening of the body.

D is a rib along the middle of the outside ofv each case.

E is the main axle-hub in the middle of each case.

G and G' are the main axles, and f I is a bolt through the hubs F of thebody.

Make a socket-collar, Y and E', the collar E part thereof six incheslong, more or less, with. the hole through it, or ring large enough togo on and work loosely over4 the main axle G', and the socket Y' partthereof fifteen inches long, more or less, and three and a half incheswide, and an-inch deep inside, all more or less, with ears, y', on thesides, near the fore end,-for holes for a bolt or pin to gorthrough. Imake this in one piece of cast-iron.

Make a tongue, Y, suitable for horses, and fasten the hind end thereofin the socket Y', by the bolts 'b' and pin p, through the tongue andsocket, or by any desired obvious way.

Pivot the tongue Y to the main axle-G' by putting the tongue-collar Eover the axle, the tongue and socketecollar being made practically oneinstrument by being attached, and the collar being only ahole in thehind end vof the tongue. I

To the top of the collar E', near the edge next the case attach the arcse', set half an inch, more or less, apart, three-eighths of an inchthick, an inch wide, and six inches high, all more or less, and udthnotches three-eighths of an inch, more or less, wide and deep, andthree-fourths of an inch apart, more or-less, in and laterally acrossthe outer edges, projecting up and circling forward. A simple way is tomake the arcs of Wrought7-iron, and mould and pour the echar around themof castiron.

From the outer e'dge of the fore end of the rib, D, of the case A',upand circling back, project a slotted segment, 1, an inch thick, threeinches wide, and seven inches high, all more or less, with the slot, aninch wide,

and siX inches long, more or less, laterally through it. Thi'smay becast with the case A', and be supported by ribs, 2 and 2', onland acrossthe lib D, connecting the edges of the arch with the case.

Make a support, 3, au inch thick, an inch anda half wide, and six incheslong, all' more or less, and pivot it perpendicularly at the edge of therib, D, of the case A', midway between the slotted segment 1 and themain axle-hub E, with the top nearly on a level with the top of the archl.

The support 3 may be pivoted to the rib D by extending the bolt Ithrough the forward hub, F of the case, A', and through a hole in thebottom of the support, to work loosely over the end of the bolt for thatpurpose.

Make a lever yor bar, Q, half an inch thick, one and. a half inch wide,and three feet long, all more or less.

Fasten and pivot the fore end of the bar Q to the tongue Y. This may bedone simply by extending the bolt or pin p' out from the tongueY andsocket Y', through and working loosely in a hole in the fore end of thelever.

Attachy the tongueA` Yv and barl Qsto the A slotted seg--A ment 1 byextending the pin p through the slot, with a broad head on the inner endof the pin, the pin to work loosely within the slot.

Pivot the bar Q to the top of the support 3, with the har between thearcs e.

Make a trigger, 4, one-fourth of an inch thick, half an inch wide, and'seven inches long, all more or less, with two inches, more or less, ofthe fore end bent up at aright angle.

'Pivot the top of the bent end of the trigger 4 to the bar Q, sfixinches, more or less, forward of the hind end thereof, by putting thebent end of the trigger up into a' slot made for that purpose in thebar, with a pivotpin through bar and slot and trigger, or -bybifurcating the bent end of the trigger and lapping the forks over thebar, with pivot-pin through forks and bar, or by any obvious way.

Make a loop, 6, under the bar or less, backof the arcs e'.

Make Aa trigger-rod, 5, one-fourth of an inch in diameter, and twelveinches long, more or less.

Make a pawl, 7 ,'-three-eighths of an inch thick and one and a fourthinch wide and deep, al1 more or less,

Q, two inches, more and forge or attach it rigidly to the fore end ofthe trigger-rod 5.

, loosely on the hind end of the trigger, and attach the other endrigidly to the under edge of the bar Q, back of the pivot of the trigger4, and set the spring so its tension will press the hind end of thetrigger' as far from the bar as possible.

Clasping the hand round and bringing the trigger up against the hindendoi' the bar Q, -will swing the fore end of the trigger 4 backhalf aninch, more or less, and pull the pawl 7 out of a notch in the arcsec'.

Unelnsping the trigger will permit the spring '8 to press its h ind enddown and swing its fore end forward and push the pztwl into a. notch ofthe aros. This allows the- ,lever (1l to be set in any' desired positionwithin the zu'es {.When the'tongue Y is firmly held, lifting the hindund or hnndle of the lever Q, will raise the fore end of the bod) A andA', and the points of the knives ofthe outtiilg-inziehiner)- theretoattached, :nld lowerlngthe lever-handle will lower the foro end of thebody nid the points of the knives of the cutting-machinery. And thedriver, setting over the hind end ofthe body .1Xn.11d.\',czn1reaehthehandle ofthe lever Q,zn1d therewitlnby raising or lowering it, regulatethe out' ofthe cutting-knives'.

` 'lhe nature of the invention is, connecting the bodY A and A undtongue Y by a lever, Q, within reach of :i driver sitting over the hindend of the body, to raise and lower the points of the knives of thecutting-mabinittion described I think new; l know it is useful,

and 1 limit myself thereto. IherefOre,

I claim the combina-tion and :t1-ran gement of the lever Q with the arese', the bodyA and A, the tongue Y, the tongue-collar E', amd th'e niuin:Lxle Gr', made and used :is described, for gru-ss nud grain-cuttingmachines.

G. XV. N. YOST. Witnesses:

C. W. ARoHBoLn, l. FRANK H. W. Gnnee.

